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2. LIFE OF JOHN WOOD
.Life before his journey
.How he was inspired
.How he inspired many people

3. LIFE BEFORE HIS JOURNEY
John Wood was born in January 1964, inHartford,
Connecticut, where he spent his early childhood.
His family later settled in Athens, Pennsylvania,
where he attended high school.[3] He holds a
bachelor's degree from the University of
Colorado, and a master's degree in business
administration from the Kellogg Graduate School
of Management at Northwestern University.[4]
From 1991-1999, John Wood worked as an executive
for Microsoft. His positions included Director of
Marketing for Australia, Director of Marketing for
the Asia-Pacific region and Director of Business
Development for Greater China.[5]

4. HOW HE WAS INSPIRED
Wood took a vacation from his work at Microsoft in
1998 to trek through the Himalayas.[5] While
trekking, he met a “resource director” for the
schools in the Annapurna Circuit of Nepal, with
whom he visited a primary school that contained
450 children and only a handful of books—none age-
appropriate.[6] Upon seeing Wood's reaction to the
lack of books, the school’s headmaster suggested,
"Perhaps, sir, you will someday come back with
books," which inspired Wood to solicit book
donations from family and friends via email sent
from an Internet cafe in Kathmandu.[7]

5. HOW HE INSPIRED MANY PEOPLE
A year later, Wood returned to the school with 3,000
books—all donated in response to his email appeal to
friends and family.[8][9] Soon thereafter, he left his job at
Microsoft entirely to devote himself full-time to Books
for Nepal, a side project that would eventually form the
foundation for Room to Read.
Leaving Microsoft was published by Harper Collins in
August 2006. It was featured on The Oprah Winfrey
Show in 2007, with "Oprah's Book Drive" for Room to
Read raising over $3 million. Leaving Microsoft has
been published in 21 languages. It was named one of
the Top Ten non-fiction books of 2006 by Hudson's
Booksellers and a Top Ten business narrative by
Amazon.com. The sequel was published by Penguin in
February, 2013.

6. HOW JOHN WOOD HELP THE POOR CHILDREN
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=l4oNeqlpYz0&t=
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